Welcome to the Durham FM Association
The Durham FM Association is a group of friendly amateur radio operators interested in all aspects of amateur radio service. Members in Durham, Chapel Hill, Raleigh, and surrounding areas of North Carolina enjoy operating through VHF and UHF repeaters sponsored and maintained by the club. Currently the club operates FM voice repeaters on 145.450-, 147.225+, 224.260-, 444.100+ and 444.450+ mhz(the plus and minus indicating standard offsets on the respective bands). We meet on the 1st Tuesday of the month (see Calendar) with Dinner (optional) at 6:00pm and the business meeting and program at 7:00pm. We are meeting at Bullock's BBQ, on 3330 Quebec Drive in Durham. [click for map] (For more info on each meeting, check the Calendar entry.) Our club runs a great hamfest toward the end of May each year. The DurHamFest was held in the Little River Community Complex the last three year and is expected to be there again in 2011. Dealers sell new and used equipment, books, and parts. "Tailgaters" also offer much used equipment. Besides the buying, selling, and trading, door prizes and fellowship with old and new friends make this a real fun event.
This web page is a work in progress. Please give us feedback at the meeting telling us what you do and don't like on this web site. Thanks!
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Written by Dee Ramm
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Sunday, 25 July 2010 |
Program at Bullock's BBQ:Wayne, KJ4GDW, will speak about RF Safety
Wayne has taught RF safety to communications professionals in his long carreer in television broadcasting. He is adapting this material to the typically lower power, but also less controlled environment of amateur radio. (Wayne did a super program for us last year on Digital Television.)
Wayne recently retired from the position of Chief Engineer for UNC TV. As always: 6:00 pm to eat 7:00 pm for the program
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 25 July 2010 )
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Written by Dee Ramm
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 |
Program at Bennett Pointe Grill:Digital Voice Communications - HF We will view the HF portion of the DVD produced by Gary Pearce, KN4AQ. Last meeting Gary presented the portion on D-Star and digital communications. (He donated the disk to the Club.) Thanks Gary! Check out Gary's web site: ARVideoNews.com Preliminary Report on Field DayField Day was hot, impressive (10 stations) and a lot of fun. At the meeting Dave, W4SAR, will give us a report with the latest results. Time permitting, Dee, KU4GC, will show some Field Day pictures. Note: Time and Location
Since Bullocks always closes for a couple of weeks each July we will met at the:
Bennett Pointe Grill 4625 Hillsborough Rd (US 70)
(Bennett Pointe Shopping Center)
Durham [click for maps] As always: 6:00 pm to eat 7:00 pm for the program
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 03 July 2010 )
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Written by W4SAR
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Thursday, 10 June 2010 |
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I have attached a PDF of the operator sign up sheet displays our schedule. Essentially it is a matrix of the 10 stations to be set up, with the 24 hours of Field Day operations broken up into two hour time slots.
[click here for FD 2010 Schedule Form]
Ideally, we should have at least two volunteers in each time slot, one for operating and the other for logging. They can always switch roles and even more people can play and rotate roles, but that is up to the band captains.
What I want to start is getting indications of interest from people, I will list the stations and their band captains, the time slots will be 2 hours each running from 2:00pm Saturday June 26, to 2:00pm Sunday June 27. So the times will be 2:00pm to 4:00pm, 4:00pm to 6:00pm, 6:00pm to 8:00pm and so forth.
The Stations and Band Captains are as follows:
80M CW Mac WQ8U
40M CW Steve KZ1X
20/15M CW Wilson W4BOH
80M Digital Patrick KJ4EWX
40/15 Digital Dave W4SAR
20M Digital Ken KR4FM
80/160M Phone Bill W1REP
40/15M Phone Chris KG4CFX
20M Phone Ted KE4NBB
10M Phone Karen KD4YJZ
Here's how it will work: Look at the schedule. Then email a message telling what stations you want to work with, and what times you'd be available to w4sar at aol.com. I'll pass this on to each of the respective band captain who will okay who gets to operate and when. I give the band captains the first and last say as it is their equipment! They might already have some slots covered, but then they will be looking for relief when it's been busy a while. Once I've gotten the okays, I'll start filling in the schedule. Do note that CW operators in particular are badly needed. Also, lots of hands to help setting up the stations on Friday afternoon and Saturday morning, as well as tear down on Sunday afternoon.
73,
Dave Snyder, W4SAR
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 10 June 2010 )
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